Thanks for all the nice feedback! This took me about a year, I was working outside with the boat under a tarp, so I could only really work on the weekends. If I had it inside and had been a bit more diligent I probably could have done it in 3 months. And we actually take it out all the time, I actually took these pictures when I brought it back in the shop to revarnish it and sand out the inevitable scratches.

Very nice!A few years back my son and I went up to Peterborough to learn to build these canoes. It took 6 guys a week to build it under supervision of the author of ‘Canoe Craft’ at the same time another group built a wood strip kayak next to us. At the end of the week we drew strays to see who would buy the craft for just the cost of materials. For those who have never heard, Peterborough Ontario is known as the home of the white man’s canoe. They have a really nice canoe museum there. A group of the students camped by the river that runs thru the town the whole week. It was a really great father/son bonding time. The author also comes to the states to teach or at least he used to. You can find his contact info on line.